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ABOUT THIS BOOK | CONTENTS
[COVER]
A
Blue Moon in August
is a comedy of manners about marriage and
children late in life. It is the 5th novel
in the “My Years of Apprenticeship at
Love sextet” about Walker Underwood,
now a bohemian information worker in
Berkeley and Silicon Valley who meets and
marries and becomes a father late in life
and suddenly.
The
story is told from the perspective of both
the man and the woman as they come to
embrace their commitment to each other.
Shifting between third and first person
narrative within their stories, we enter
fantasy and dreams or see the characters
from outside through a
‘bookmovie’.
It
is a novel in the form of their emotional
memories and creative
experiences&emdash;the man’s as he
struggles with the decision to marry, and
finds the male role model of
marriageability and becomes a
father&emdash;and the woman’s as she
liberates herself from her family to start
her own.
One
chapter&emdash;The Prowess of Kong,
presents the great hippie dream of group
marriage in a Tantric Buddhist commune as
a contrast to traditional marriage.
Another chapter&emdash;Urban Angst at the
7-11 in 2019, a cyberpunk sci-fi, presents
a man’s fear of the future and coming
to rely on his wife.
A
Blue Moon in August, is a hilarious
picture of a new father undergoing the
spell of motherhood and struggling to
maintain his sense of self and grow with
it.
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